CBD Metro was a proposed metro line running in Sydney, Australia announced on 23 October 2008. It was to be undertaken by the NSW State Government and was placed on a short-list of projects to be funded by Infrastructure Australia's Building Australia Fund in December 2008. The CBD Metro was designed to cater to the "CBD Growth Centre" and was identified as the enabling "central spine" to a proposed larger metro system for Sydney, including extensions to the west and possibly the north-west.
The CBD Metro would have consisted of a 9-kilometre (5.6 mi) track railway running from Rozelle and Pyrmont to connect with Wynyard, Town Hall and Central. The project would have included a train stabling facility to the west of the new Pyrmont station. The new Euro-style metro was proposed to offer a rail service of one train every four to five minutes (three minutes during peak hours). It would have run on conventional standard gauge track, similar to the existing CityRail network, but would have operated without drivers. It was to run single deck rolling stock along the route of the proposed CBD Metro.
The CBD Metro was cancelled on 21 February 2010, by NSW Premier Kristina Kenneally as part of the Metropolitan Transport Plan: Connecting the City of Cities, 2010. The plan announced the CBD Relief Line, a heavy rail line that essentially replaces the CBD Metro.
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